A Lead Provided by Bookmarks - Intelligent Browsers

• Author: Dan Balanescu
• Pages: 759-765

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The Youth of Today - The Generation of the Global

Development - Special Section for Students and MA Students

A Lead Provided by Bookmarks - Intelligent Browsers

Dan Balanescu1

Abstract: Browsers are applications that allow Internet access. A defining characteristic is their

unidirectionality: Navigator-> Internet. The purpose of this article is to support the idea of Intelligent

Browsers th at is defined by bidirectional: Navigator-> Internet and Internet-> Navigator. The fundamental

idea is that the Internet contains huge resources of knowledge, but they are “passive”. The purpose of this

article is to propose the “activation” of this knowledge so that they, through “Intelligent Browsers”, to become

from Sitting Ducks to Active Mentors. Following this idea, th e present article proposes changes to Bookmarks

function, from the current status of Favorites to Recommendations. The article presents an analysis of the

utility of this function (by presenting a research of web browsing behaviors) and in particular finds that the

significance of this utility has decreased lately (to the point of becoming almost useless, as will be shown), in

terms data-information-knowledge. Finally, it presents the idea of a project which aims to be an applied

approach that anticipates the findings of this study and the concept of Intelligent Browsers (or Active

Browsers) required in the context of the Big Data concept.

Keywords: recording search sequence; bookmarks; active data; passive data; redundancy

1 Introduction

Web 2.0 revolution and the explosion of mobile communications have changed the way we relate to

internet and how we access it. On one hand the concept of user-content, on the other hand small size

display required by mobile technologies “requested” more intuitive, more convenient and faster

interfaces.

“Automation” process for certain actions based on reasons to reduce redundant movements included a

“tendency to anticipate” users' intentions, an application of behavioural insights gained by graphical

user interface architects.

1Undergraduate, Danubius University of Galati, Faculty of Communication Sciences and International Relations, Romania,

Address: 3 Galati Blvd, 800654, Galati, Romania, Tel.: +40372361102, Fax: +40372331290, Corresponding author:

contact.balanescu@gmail.com.